Music Review

Engine Summer are a Chicagoan indie rock trio, sharing lead vocal and song writing duties. After meeting in high school and forming several garage bands together over the years, it took until 2016 for Engine Summer to forge their own brand…

Do you like music that mixes electronic, jazz, ambience, future-pop and R&B elements? You do? Splendid, because I have just the release for you. Today, I'm talking about after it all blew over, from the artist otta. She's a…

The third album from Gabrielle Aplin, Dear Happy, is a beautiful record from the English songstress. ‘Until The Sun Comes Up’ opens the album with a poetic introduction. Aplin offers deep lyrics and emotive vocals, as she sings, “do you…

A Beginner’s Guide to Bravery is a remarkable release from David Keenan, showcasing his effortless, ambitious talent. “I had a dream that James Dean was alive and well today / looking for the quiet life / working for Irish Rail,” Keenan…

Dundalk native Video Blue (Jim O'Donoghue Martin) is back with a new record, Night Painting. Arriving at the tail end of 2019, the album comes two years after his debut full-length release, Love Scenes. Recorded in studios around London,…

Xi.me.na Borges, a Venezuelan/New York experimental artist, is an award-winning composer and performer. Melding old and new via the use of digital and analogue tech, she also blends music from different eras. The result is a body of work…

Healing Spells, the solo venture of Japanese electronic producer Past Lives, is something of an experimental detour, garnering comparisons to OneOhTrix Point Never and Gold Panda. Vestiges is the culmination of musical and physical…

The Make Shift E.P. by Beg Friend opens with the standout track, 'Slow Burner', starting with a series of beeps before the sample kicks in. The sample is a recording of English actor Laon Maybanke, prominent in the 60s, reading from T.S.…

On March 21, 2019, Irish indie rock band Little Green Cars announced that they were disbanding. As per the band’s own statement, it was amicable: “no terrible calamity, no heartless betrayal and no punches thrown”. The band’s albums—2013’s…

Today I had the pleasure of listening to Spielbergs, a three-piece indie rock band from Oslo, Norway. It would appear they have quite the buzz around them, garnering acclaim from many publications. Running All The Way Home contains five, or…